{"title":"W. B. Bartlett","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eW. B. Bartlett\u003c\/strong\u003e specialises in meticulously researched works that bring pivotal historical events to life. His writings explore the complexities of military campaigns and the figures who shaped them, with a keen eye for detail and context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect engaging narratives that illuminate moments such as the Viking invasions and early medieval leadership, blending scholarly insight with accessible storytelling to deepen understanding of history and warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"king-cnut-and-the-viking-conquest-of-england-1016-by-w-b-bartlett-9781445682891","title":"King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Viking Conquest of England in 1016— a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a century later—saw two great warriors, the Danish prince Cnut and his equally ruthless English opponent King Edmund Ironside, fight an epic campaign. Cnut sailed in two hundred longboats, landing first in September 1015 on the Wessex coast with 10,000 soldiers. The two forces fought each other to the point of exhaustion for the next fourteen months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a war of terrifying violence that scarred much of England, from the Humber to Cornwall. It saw an epic siege of the great walls of London and bruising set-piece battles at Penselwood, Otford, and the conclusive Danish victory at Assandun on 18 October 1016. Edmund's death soon afterwards finally resolved a brutal, bloody conflict and ended with Cnut becoming the undisputed king of England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016\u003c\/em\u003e tells the extraordinary story of Cnut the Great's life. Cnut was far removed from the archetypal pagan Viking, being a staunch protector of the Christian Church and a man who would also become Emperor of the North as king of Denmark and Norway. 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As he draws his last breath, the world of which he is the greatest figurehead also moves towards its end, its existence about to pass from history into legend and later into myth. This is not Hastings; it is Stamford Bridge, and the dying king is Harald Hardrada, one of the greatest figures of the Viking age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a bolt from the blue when Viking raiders descended on the defenceless monastery at Lindisfarne in 793 and left it a heap of burning rubble. In succeeding years, other monasteries fell too: Jarrow, Monkwearmouth, Iona. Britain and Ireland suffered extensively, as did France, Spain, Italy, and even the mighty Byzantine Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut this was not just a period of conquest and violence. It was also an age of exploration; Viking ships crossed the Atlantic, through Shetland and Orkney to the Faroes and from there to Iceland, Greenland, and North America. They sailed east, and their traders moved across the steppes and rivers of Russia down to Constantinople, then the greatest city in Christendom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of the Vikings, those men and women who raided and traded their way into history whilst at the same time helping to build new nations in Scandinavia and beyond. Their history begins a long time before the Lindisfarne raid. It is also the tale of evocatively named great men: Sweyn Forkbeard, Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Lodbrok, Erik the Red, Ivarr the Boneless, Cnut the Great.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book \u003cem\u003eVikings\u003c\/em\u003e by W. B. 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